Is the Socially Responsible Corporation a Myth? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Corporate Social Responsibility

By Timothy M. Devinney. 2009

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Noise, and Stock Market Volatility (2012, background): “…there is evidence that findings about CSR may have been influenced by researcher ideology or values (Orlitzky, 2011) and problematic research designs (Devinney, 2009; McWilliams & Siegel, 2000; McWilliams, Siegel, & Teoh, 1999), inevitably lowering confidence in the veracity of these findings.”
Emotional Intelligence: Sine Qua Non of Leadership or Folderol? (2011, unknown): “Consistent with an increased interest in corporate social responsibility (Devinney, 2009), researchers and practitioners are focusing considerable attention on ethics in leadership (e.”
The effects of managerial and employee attributions for corporate social responsibility initiatives (2017, background): “We posit and find support that making sense of CSR—a paradoxical and contested concept and practice (Devinney, 2009)—elicits attributional processes that are inherently elusive; thus, relevant leadership insights may play an instrumental role in employees’ attributional CSR sensemaking processes…”
The Natural Environmental Strategies of International Firms: Old Controversies and New Evidence on Performance and Disclosure (2016, background): “…international activities (e.g., Christmann, 2004; Delmas & MontesSancho, 2011), yet there are doubts regarding whether international firms’ overseas activities promote or prevent the diffusion of environmental improvements (e.g., Devinney, 2009; King & Shaver, 2001; Van der Byl & Slawinski, 2015).”
Green Management Matters Only if it Yieds More Green: An Economic/Strategic Perspective (2009, result): “This approach is consistent with Tim Devinney’s recent lucid and insightful essay in Academy of Management Perspectives encouraging a “complex and multifaceted approach” to social responsibility and encouraging researchers to explain precisely how firms can “do well by doing good” (Devinney, 2009).”
The Role of Cooperation in Responsible AI Development (2019, background): “This view is common in the literature on corporate social responsibility (Campbell, 2007; Devinney, 2009) but it is clearly an abstraction.”
Do Ratings of Firms Converge? Implications for Managers, Investors and Strategy Researchers (2016, unknown): “…has explored the drivers of CSR, such as profit-maximizing responses to heterogeneous consumer preferences (Mackey, Mackey, & Barney, 2007), imitation among firms, or a departure from profit-maximizing behavior to satisfy managers’ private goals (Marquis, Glynn, & Davis, 2007; Devinney, 2009).”
An Institution of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Multi-National Corporations (MNCs): Form and Implications (2012, background): “In particular, it looks at specific CSR practices to critically evaluate the implications of this activity for the field of CSR (Banerjee, 2007; Devinney, 2009).”
The Importance of Social Product Attributes in Consumer Purchasing Decisions: A Multi-Country Comparative Study (2010, unknown): “Belk, Devinney, and Eckhardt (2005) used video ethnography techniques with consumers from nine countries to get a deeper understanding of the underlying rationale for the purchase (or non-purchase) of socially desirable products.”
Tensions in Corporate Sustainability: Towards an Integrative Framework (2014, unknown): “Since it is probably safe to assume that managers are confronted more often than not with tensions and conflicts in corporate sustainability (Devinney 2009), our framework helps them to deal with the resulting complexity.”
Institutional Logics in the Study of Organizations: The Social Construction of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance (2011, background): “Managers are seen as purely economic (rational) actors, not social or moral agents (Devinney, 2009; Siegel, 2009).”